B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Latest entries in the database

Delivered Cheyenne 22/7/44; Hunter 1/8/44; Grenier 13/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 15/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23/6/45; Recl Comp 19/6/47.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-F] Kimbolton 11/6/43; transferred 526BS [LF-F]; Missing in Action Evreux 3/9/43 with Julius Kraft {all 524bs crew}, Ball turret gunner: Frank Frydryk, Waist gunner: Don Armstrong (3 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Norman Toft, Navigator: Ron Jacobs, Bombardier: Tom Peifer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Morrison Nolan, Radio Operator: Hugh McKeegan, Waist gunner: Delbert Klump,Tail gunner: Bob Vandegriff (7 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Epinay, nine miles S of Bernay, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1349.

Delivered Dallas 5/6/44; Langley 3/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; with Bernard Dick force landed Africa en route Italy 10/8/44; Assigned 353BS/301BG PFF Lucera 14/8/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/7/44; Hunter 1/8/44; Dow Fd 14/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 15/8/44 QUEENIE; 18BS; crashed on take off for Sterkrade 20/1/45 with Dan Mote, Co-pilot: Pruitt, Bombardier: Fossum, Radio Operator: Ilkka, Ball turret gunner: Ken Lookwood, Waist gunner: keist,Tail gunner: Chaney (7 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Carlton Yarborough, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Hulings (2 Killed in Action); crashed at Gipping, Sfk, three miles W of base; Salvaged. GALLOPIN’ GHOST.

Delivered Lincoln 5/10/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 8AF 23/10/44; Re-ass AF 30/4/47; 19HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 19/1/48; Recl Comp 7/1/49.

Delivered Dallas 24/7/44; Hunter 2/9/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 333BS/94BG Rougham 20/9/44; transferred 92BG Podington 10/44; ret 410BS/94BG Rougham, with landing accident with Ken Currey 30/7/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 7/10/44; Grenier 15/10/44; Assigned 8AF 19/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 14/7/44; Presque Is 4/8/44; Assigned 419BS/301BG Lucera 13/8/44; Missing in Action Pardubice 24/8/44 with Stan Peterson, Eisenstein, Gustafson, White, Curtin (5 Killed in Action); Guenther, Lundy, Sabato, Porter, Johnson (5 Returned to Duty); crew bailed over Adriatic Sea as aircraft ditched. Missing Air Crew Report 16214 & 16519.

Delivered Long Beach 25/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-R] Horham 15/10/43; Ball turret gunner: Joe Lintelman (Killed in Action) 18/3/44; 42m, Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Rich Bannerman, Co-pilot: Wallace Lillo, Navigator: Tom Sefcik, Bombardier: Irving Wilson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Phil Rashead, Radio Operator: Tom Gopigian, Ball turret gunner: Ray DeYaeger, Waist gunner: Roland Carlson, Waist gunner: Chas Skully,Tail gunner: John Backowski (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Dummersdtorf, near Bandelsdorf, six miles SE of Rostock, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3806, HEAVEN CAN WAIT.

Delivered Dallas 26/6/45; Rome 26/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/8/43; force landed Yucca Aux Fd with Harry Carlson 27/12/43; 2517 BU Elington 2/10/44; 2135 BU Tyndall 10/10/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 23/12/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/9/43; Scott 7/10/43; Assigned 388BG Knettishall 9/10/43; re-ass 87ATS/27ATG Prestwick 20/10/43; u/c collapsed waiting taxi instructions at Prestwick for Chelveston 21/10/43 with Harry Oberholtzer, Co-pilot: Royal Jackson.rep; Salvaged n/battle damaged 31/1/44.

Delivered Dallas 23/8/43; Tinker 14/12/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 30/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Dallas 28/7/45; Sth Plains for storage, as one of 20 set for United States Coast Guard; served with USAF as TB-17G and VB-17G; sold Lloyd Aeros Bolivianos 1956 as CP-620; back to US, Aircraft Specialities, Mesa, Az 12/60, N620L as tanker; took part in film Tora, Tora, Tora 1969; destroyed in crash, Elko, Nev 12/7/73.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Kearney 16/2/44; Assigned 748BS/457BG [Z] Glatton 8/3/44; on return from mission to Erding 24/4/44 with Harris Mathis, Co-pilot: Norris Gerber, Navigator: Fred Asbell, Bombardier: John Richardson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rex Crawford, Radio Operator: Don Cook, Ball turret gunner: Mark Osborne, Waist gunner: Bob Makin, Waist gunner: Nick Pesko,Tail gunner: Ralph Garrison (10 Returned to Duty); force landed base, Salvaged 27/4/44.

Delivered Pendleton 34BG 2/5/42; Wright Fd 16/6/42; Geiger 11/7/42; Wendover 31/7/42; Westover 11/8/42; Walla Walla 20/9/42; Hill 2/10/42; Alamogordo 19/12/42; Lockbourn 1/4/43; RCAF as [9205], 168th Heavy Transport Sq, Rocklifffe, Ont.; Used for VIP and Mail to Prestwick; mid air coll with Wellington, force landed Predannack, UK 14/3/44. (?SOC with RCAF 27/12/46; Sold to Argentina as LC-RTP and scrapped in 1964?)

Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/43; Gore 17/5/43; Cheyenne 20/5/43; Smoky Hill 30/5/43; Morrison 7/6/43; Assigned 352BS/301BG St Donat 9/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {60m} Regensburg with John Van Nortwick, Power, Thompson, Baronas, Martyniak, Moye, Ballard, Wiand, Murray, Yoaschnig (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Trebon, Czech; Missing Air Crew Report 2595.

Delivered Cheyenne 24 February 1944; Denver 2 March 1944; 1SAG Langley 1 June 1944; Dow Field 24 June 1944; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 15 July 1944; transferred 305BG Chelveston 16 JUly 1944; transferred 327BS/92BG [UX-R] Podington 1 August 1944; transferred 407BS (PY-U). Was flown by Lt Klyza as 92nd BG lead aircraft on the 4 August 1944 mission to Anklam, Germany, with Captain Frederick T. Prasse as Co-Pilot; ground looped with Stephen McDonnell at Watton Airfield 12 January 1945; Transferred 91BG Bassingbourn 7 May 1945; Salvaged 9thAF 18 May 1946; re-assigned AF 30 April 1947; Recl Comp 19 October 1947.

Delivered Long Beach 12/9/43; Scott 21/10/43; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-M] Deenethorpe 26/10/43; aircraft stalled & crashed on take off and exploded 5/12/43, with Walter Keith, Co-pilot: Wardlaw Hammond, Navigator: Carl Floto (inj), Bombardier: John King (inj), Engineer/TTG: Bill Woodward, Radio Operator: Ben Musser, Ball turret gunner: Walden Cohen, Waist gunner: Harry Kelsen, Waist gunner: Dave Hadsell (inj),Tail gunner: Bob Kerr (10 Returned to Duty), salvaged. ZENOBIA – EL ELEPHANTA.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/2/43; Pueblo 19/2/43; Salina 25/2/43; Brookley 19/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Brookley 9/4/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG Alconbury 27/4/43; transferred 333BS/94BG Earls Colne 12/5/43; then 322BS; Rougham 13/6/43; Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Maj Lewis Gordon Thorup, Co-pilot: Capt Kirk + crew (10RTD-rescued from their liferafts); enemy aircraft, ditched North Sea. SHACKEROO !